thing A LOCAL ORGANIZATION SAYS IT IS HOPING TO CLEAR UP THE NEGATIVE ATTENTION PIT BULLS GET. THIS COMES JUST DAYS AFTER A FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN HOUMA WAS ATTACKED AND KILLED BY A PIT BULL POLICE CALLED A QUOTE 'MONSTER.' THE ATTACK HAS RE- KINDLED AN ALREADY HEATED DEBATE ABOUT PIT BULLS...AND WHETHER THEY'RE DANGEROUS. WDSU NEWS REPORTER BLAKE HANSON IS LIVE AT TEN WITH MORE ON HOW PEOPLE STAND ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS. RACHEL -- THE ATTACK THIS WEEK WAS THE THIRD AND AS MANY YEARS. IN 2012, A HAMMOND CHILD WAS ATTACKED BY A NEIGHBOR'S DOG. LAST MARCH, A WESTWEGO WOMAN WAS ATTACKED BY THREE DOGS, SO SEVERELY, SOME OF HER LIMBS HAD TO BE AMPUTATED. A LOCAL PITBULL ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION SAYS THE ATTACKS ARE RELATIVELY RARE...BUT WHEN THEY DO HAPPEN THEY GET A LOT OF ATTENTION. nats NO MATTER THE BREED. nats PETS OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES LINED UP SUNDAY FOR A FULL SERVICE. we offer low cost vaccinations and spay neuter services, heartworm testing THE CLINIC IS ONE OF SEVERAL PUT ON YEAR-ROUND BY THE SULA FOUNDATION. STARTED IN 2008 -- THE ORGANIZATION PROMOTES RESPONSIBLE PITBULL OWNERSHIP. I felt like it was really important to show that pit bulls are members of people's families and that pitbulls are affectionate BUT SOME HAVE QUESTIONED HOW AFFECTIONATE PIT BULLS ARE ON A WEEK LIKE THIS -- AFTER HOUMA POLICE SAY THIS 130 POUND PIT BULL ATTACKED AND KILLED FOUR-YEAR-OLD MIA DEROUEN. SULA FOUNDATION FOUNDER KEN FOSTER SAYS WHAT HAPPENED IS TRAGIC...BUT HE SCRUTINIZES LABELING THE DOG A PIT BULL... SAYING ITS LIKELY THE LARGER "AMERICAN BULLY". its two, three or four times the size of the pit bulls we most commonly see UNBIASED INFORMATION ON BITE STATISTICS IS HARD TO FIND. BUT STUDIES FROM THE AMERICAN TEMPERAMENT TEST SOCIETY HAVE FOUND 86.8 PERCENT OF PIT BULLS PASSED THEIR TEMPERAMENT TESTS. A HIGHER PROPORTION THAN COLLIES, BEAGLES OR GOLDEN RETRIEVERS. I grew up and we had pits my whole life VETERINARIAN DR. ROLLIE NORRIS -- A VOLUNTEER AT SUNDAY'S CLINIC -- SAYS IN HIS EXPERIENCE IT'S LESS LIKELY THE BREED AND MORE LIKELY THE UPBRINGING AND ENVIRONMENT THAT WOULD LEAD TO AN AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR. I just think that a lot of it is you know, how the dogs are handled THAT'S IN PART WHY THE SULA FOUNDATION HELPS NEW OWNERS AT CLINICS LIKE THIS. LOCATING DISCOUNTED OBEDIENCE CLASSES...SO THEY UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSIBILITY NO MATTER THE BREED. its important for people to understand when you have a dog that you need to be responsible that we all live in an environment that we share with other people POLICE SHOT AND KILLED THAT DOG AFTER THE ATTACK. WE SHOULD NOTE -- THE OWNER OF THE DOG HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH ANY WRONG DOING AND THERE HAS BEEN NO SUGGESTION THE DOG WAS ABUSED. POLICE ARE CONTINUING THEIR INVESTIGATION THOUGH -- TO TRY AND DETERMINE WHAT -- IF ANYTHING -- MIGHT HAVE SPARKED THE ATTACK.

A Mexican photojournalist who left the state he worked in because of threats was among five people found shot to death in a Mexico City apartment this weekend, officials and press freedom advocacy groups said.